Tupuri

Tupuri language

Tupuri language

Language of Chad and Cameroon

Not to be confused with Tuburi language.

Tupuri (or Toupouri) is a language mostly spoken in the Mayo-Kebbi Est Region of southern Chad and in small parts of northern Cameroon. It is an Mbum language spoken by the Tupuri people with approximately 300,000 speakers.

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Tupuri was erroneously classified as a Chadic language by Joseph Greenberg, due to a vocabulary list that is actually that of Kera (cf. K. Ebert 1974).[2]

Distribution

Tupuri is predominantly spoken in the southeastern part of the Moulvouday plain, in:[2]

  • Kaélé, Porhi, Taibong villages in Moulvouday commune
  • Guidigis commune, in Mayo-Kani department
  • Kar-Hay, Kalfou, Datcheka, Tchatibali communes in Mayo-Danay department

The Viri or Wina are ethnically Tupuri, but today they speak a Massa dialect.[2]

Tupuri is also spoken in Chad. In Cameroon, it has about 125,000 speakers (SIL 2000).[2]

Phonology

Consonants

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Vowels

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References

  1. [1]
    Tupuri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.
  3. [3]
    Ruelland, Suzanne (1988). Dictionnaire Tupuri-Français-Anglais (Région de Mindaoré- Tchad). Paris: SELAF.


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